2009-10-08 News

By the Numbers

October 08, 2009

$44 million
Amount by which the state accounting department overestimated general fund revenues for fiscal year 2009 due to a "recording error"

$13.43
Amount by which the average Maui resident's electric bill would increase under a proposed Maui Electric Company (MECO) rate hike

88.2 percent
Portion of Hawaii secondary schools where junk food cannot be purchased on campus, highest among the states surveyed in a recent federal report

28.5 percent
Portion of Hawaii children age 10-17 who are overweight or obese, higher than 13 other states

Sources: MECO, Hawaii.gov/gov, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Trust for America's Health, Pacific Business News

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